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by whalabi 7y ago
So don't read the article. People do care, hence the upvotes.
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by whalabi 7y ago
It links to this article: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jun/17/breakthrough... Which has this explanation from a neuroscientist referring to the study in question: > “The two pieces of evid
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by whalabi 7y ago
Pretty sure the employees had something to do with it
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by whalabi 7y ago
The current MacBook pros are a menace for the sounds those keyboards make alone. I was stunned that no one at Apple heard that ridiculously obnoxious CLACK CLACK CLACKING and didn't think we would do something about that. Does anyone i
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by whalabi 7y ago
Well really that could very easily become: ol( li(...), li(...) ) Depending on framework. But honestly, does it really matter? Either choice isn't terrible at all.
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by whalabi 7y ago
I hear you, but if you look at the examples in the link, the before and after the update results, you'll see that there's far less of that kind of ignoring of keywords. For example a search for "can you get medicine for someo
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Every Human on One Page(worldometers.info)
2 points by whalabi 7y ago|0 comments
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by whalabi 7y ago
> search providers will state the price that they are willing to pay each time a user selects them from the choice screen in the given country So the most profitable search engines will win. Meaning the search providers most willing to s
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by whalabi 7y ago
How is such an obscure language - with associated difficulty in finding talented engineers - ever going to be a better choice than a more mainstream language, which probably has many of the same features?
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by whalabi 7y ago
A quick aside - don't buy an android TV unless you want to run a tv with very quickly outdated software. I think I got 2 years of updates on my TV, and it's not like I'm going to want to throw it out and get a new one, so I h
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by whalabi 7y ago
This information is available in the play console (where people can submit apps to the play store), and there's tens of thousands of targetable devices The vast majority of Android devices in use are Samsung devices though.. judging fr
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by whalabi 7y ago
I think the rate of change has slowed somewhat in terms of big visible changes. Although 10 dramatically improved gesture navigation, afaik.
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by whalabi 7y ago
While writing about this [1] recently, I made a chart which shows the adoption rate of each version of Android, X months after release, according to Google's own numbers. It is indeed dire. Each new version of Android is typically reac
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by whalabi 7y ago
Ok I'm a little distressed by this tweet the article linked: https://twitter.com/Rachael_Bale/status/925352538110595072
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by whalabi 7y ago
This is incredible, they actually delivered! Given the state of similar projects, often kickstarted, I had my doubts. It's a Linux phone running GNOME. It's the same deal as the Ubuntu phone that raised 10s of millions out whateve
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by whalabi 7y ago
Well no I was criticising it because women I know thought it was disrespectful to women. A pair of tits isn't "artistic".
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by whalabi 7y ago
That logo was a terrible idea.
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by whalabi 7y ago
You might ask why there is an anti-tech sentiment. Most of the big tech companies are ruthless monopolies which are exploiting people with deeply addictive apps, hoovering up every tiny detail of their lives, and selling it to advertisers
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by whalabi 7y ago
(as an aside, "that learn to code" jeer to journalists - without whom democracy can't exist - is disgusting) Implying that journalism has no value and people should mechanically make.. accounting software apps for a large org
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by whalabi 7y ago
> This entire editorial is essentially content free. The only point it makes is to summarize Facebook's shortcomings Nah. They made the point that dating apps in particular collect a lot of deeply personal info, that Facebook is usi
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Don’t Trust Facebook with Your Love Life(nytimes.com)
199 points by whalabi 7y ago|140 comments
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by whalabi 7y ago
But how do these things see it succeeding against Chrome, or even regaining significant market share? I can't see how it could ever happen. No matter what they do they can't beat the developer and monetary resources of Google.
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by whalabi 7y ago
I think Google has all these things because they have access to vastly more money and top tier developers than Mozilla. When you think about it, it's incredible that Firefox is as good as it is (same re Linux.) But obviously if Google
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In a swipe at Chrome, Firefox now blocks ad trackers by default(wired.co.uk)
679 points by whalabi 7y ago|420 comments
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1619(nytimes.com)
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by whalabi 7y ago
I love rails, but I found the wild that the metaprogramming can make things far more complex and unintuitive than they need to be. Has anyone else thought the same? Any tools to work around this?
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by whalabi 7y ago
It's also a barrier of entry to non profit search engines
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by whalabi 7y ago
I don't like it being an auction because then customers aren't necessarily getting the better choices, they're getting the choices backed by the most wealth It would also harm not for profit search engines. Why not choose bas
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by whalabi 7y ago
I don't think I agree with you. The tweet from Amazon she was replying to said "come see what our warehouses are really like" - strongly implying that the workers who complained are dishonest - not misinformed, they work ther
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by whalabi 7y ago
Do what they did on Windows, pick the 4 or 5 most popular. (In that case it was browsers) I know, I know, what about the less popular search engines? Well. It's better than Google takes all, and customers get easier access to 5 search

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